The Bible is older than 2000 years! How accurate can it be?

This question has been asked by many believers, theologians and scholars. The story of the Bible has been told and retold many a times. The New Testament is 2000 years old and some stories in the Old Testament are older than 3200 years. How accurate can it be?

Legend has it that the stories in the Bible were not written down immediately. For example the story of creation was written by Moses about 3000 years ago. Earth was created long before that. Perhaps earth was created by God about more than 6000 years ago. That leaves a 3000 year gap!

In the New Testament the gospel of John was the last to be written. Most scholars place the date of writing at the end of the first century after Christ. If Jesus died at the year 32 and that John wrote his gospel at the year 85, that leaves a 53 year gap

Now who can remember a story accurately for 3000 years or 53 without writing it down?

The only way we can trust in scripture is to treat it as spiritually breathed and the Word of God. While most Christians don’t believe that these writers remembered the story 100% accurately, we still trust in the Holy Spirit that He guided the biblical writers to convey the story in such a sense that we can trust the spiritual integrity of the scripture today!

Yes, that may leave room for human error, but the Holy Spirit not only guided the people who wrote the scriptures, but also those who read the scriptures. In other words, the Holy Spirit is on both ends of this process. This is why we must ask the Spirit to help us interpret the scripture when we read it.

We must ask the Holy Spirit to be with us when we read the scripture!

Till next time!